Path: ...!news.nobody.at!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: How To Speed Startup Of Microsoft Office? Have It Running All The Time! Date: 28 Mar 2025 18:58:31 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <6vidujd9u5ruhm8b85o52njfjghgoah65a@4ax.com> X-Trace: individual.net 5+h2zHpSvZx+/xzhbBeFJgeF9Xbc4uyk0T4YJu2qpqJUVDPLgB X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kj4opTMGp2G3vjU0ZvSgGxULc1M= sha256:8M5+TR82bF9fTfkJNeuy/2TcYfj0Hov2DCrKrxnlywk= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2189 Peter Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:30:43 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro > wrote: > > >Microsoft is trying to reduce the time it takes to start Office on > >Windows, by moving part of the work to the time when you boot your PC > >. > > > >What a wonderful idea: make an app start faster by making your machine > >take longer to boot. What if other major Windows apps did the same > >thing? Wouldn?t it be cool to have all these apps lurking in the > >background, already running, chewing up memory and CPU cycles? > > Look under the Startup Apps in the task manager and you'll find a > whole load of things that run at startup. Mine includes the Dymo label > printer app, Copernic desktop search and the app that monitors the > battery backup. Exactly, nothing new. But perhaps for Lawrence's - apparently - stone age OS, which doesn't know how to have such 'Startup Boost' (and similar) programs without "chewing up memory and CPU cycles", when they're "lurking in the background, already running" [1]. That problem was already solved at least some four decades ago. [1] Of course his OS *can* do that. After all, it's Unix-like, isn't it?